erformed that journey on foot. I told
Dr. Brown the same, but he lost his temper at once. It's curious how
patient he is in a sick-room, and how furious he can be out of it. He
was very angry with me, too, because when he mentioned to the Bishop in
my presence that Hester was under morphia, I said I strongly objected to
her being drugged, and when I repeated that morphia was a most dangerous
drug, with effects worse than intoxication, in fact, that morphia was a
form of intoxication, he positively, before the Bishop, shook his fist
in my face, and said he was not going to be taught his business by me.

"The Bishop took me away into the study. Dick Vernon was sitting there,
at least he was creeping about on all fours with Regie on his back. I
think he must be in love with Hester, he asked so anxiously if there was
any change. He would not speak to me, pretended not to know me. I
suppose the Bishop had told him about the porch, and he was afraid I
should come on him for repairs, as he had tampered with it. The Bishop
sent them away, and said he wanted to have a talk with me. The Bishop
himself was the only person who was kind."

There was a long pause. Mrs. Gresley laid her soft cheek against her
husband's, and put her small hand in a protecting manner over his large
one. It was not surprising that on the following Sunday Mr. Gresley said
such beautiful things about women being pillows against which weary
masculine athletes could rest.

"He spoke very nicely of you," went on Mr. Gresley at last. "He said he
appreciated your goodness in letting Regie go after what had happened,
and your offer to come and nurse Hester yourself. And then he spoke
about me. And he said he knew well how devoted I was to my work, and how
anything I did for the Church was a real labor of love, and that my
heart was in my work."

"It is quite true. So it is," said Mrs. Gresley.

"I never thought he understood me so well. And he went on to say that he
knew I must be dreadfully anxious about my sister, but that as far as
money was concerned--I had offered to pay for a nurse--I was to put all
anxiety off my mind. He would take all responsibility about the illness.
He said he had a little fund laid by for emergencies of this kind, and
that he could not spend it better than on Hester, whom he loved like his
own child. And then he went on to speak of Hester. I don't remember all
he said when he turned off about her, but he spoke of her as if she we